I use rsync quite often to synchronize my development & production server. Rsync is really helpful & handy tool with lot of tweaks & configuration to satisfy most of your needs. Normally I created a script to make a call to rsync
LOCK_FILE="/tmp/rsync_backup.lock" LOG_FILE="/tmp/rsync_backup.log" RSYNC="/usr/bin/rsync" if [ -e $LOCK_FILE ]; then TIMESTAMP=$(date) echo "$TIMESTAMP: lock file exists, exit now" >> $LOG_FILE exit fi cat /dev/null > $LOG_FILE touch $LOCK_FILE $RSYNC -e "ssh" -rca --delete-after /my/local/development/path/here/ ssh_username@host_name_or_ip_address:/my/production/server/path/
In case you want to use a different SSH port, then it’s easy to change
$RSYNC -e 'ssh -p 8022' -rca --delete-after /my/local/development/path/here/ ssh_username@host_name_or_ip_address:/my/production/server/path/
Change 8022 to your actual port and you are done!
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